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http://dx.doi.org/10.6109/JKIICE.2009.13.11.2277

Recognition of Car License Plates Using Difference Operator and ART2 Algorithm  

Kim, Kwang-Baek (신라대학교 컴퓨터정보공학부)
Kim, Seong-Hoon (경북대학교 컴퓨터정보학부)
Woo, Young-Woon (동의대학교 멀티미디어공학과)
Abstract
In this paper, we proposed a new recognition method can be used in application systems using morphological features, difference operators and ART2 algorithm. At first, edges are extracted from an acquired car image by a camera using difference operators and the image of extracted edges is binarized by a block binarization method. In order to extract license plate area, noise areas are eliminated by applying morphological features of new and existing types of license plate to the 8-directional edge tracking algorithm in the binarized image. After the extraction of license plate area, mean binarization and mini-max binarization methods are applied to the extracted license plate area in order to eliminated noises by morphological features of individual elements in the license plate area, and then each character is extracted and combined by Labeling algorithm. The extracted and combined characters(letter and number symbols) are recognized after the learning by ART2 algorithm. In order to evaluate the extraction and recognition performances of the proposed method, 200 vehicle license plate images (100 for green type and 100 for white type) are used for experiment, and the experimental results show the proposed method is effective.
Keywords
Difference Operator; ART2; Block Binarization; Recognition of a Car License Plate;
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